While Office 365 features like OneDrive for Business and Delve are great for collaboration, sometimes you do still need email for certain team tasks. A shared mailbox can enable a group of colleagues to communicate in a collaborative way, as well as receive and respond to emails in a central location.

A couple things to remember about shared mailboxes (source):

• When a member of the shared mailbox replies to a message in the mailbox, the email will appear to come from the shared mailbox, not the individual.
• Shared mailboxes don’t have usernames and passwords and can’t be logged in to directly.
• Unless the shared mailbox is over the storage quota of 10 GB, it won’t need a license.

To create a shared mailbox in Office 365, admins can follow the instructions in the video above or the steps below:

1. From the admin center, select SHARED MAILBOXES.
2. Click the +  symbol to add a new mailbox.
3. Enter the mailbox name and email alias (i.e. “Project Z mailbox,” projectz).
4. Optionally, add members in the name/email address field. You can also do this later by selecting the mailbox in the list and selecting EDIT MEMBERS.
5. Click Create.